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Import a single file...
Prepare a Corpus (Corpus Builder)
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Settings
Automatic and Customized Settings
Dictionary Building
Co-occurrence Analysis
Word Associations
Co-Word Analysis and Concept Mapping
Comparison between Word pairs
Sequence and Network Analysis
Concordances
Co-occurrence Toolkit
Thematic Analysis
Thematic Analysis of Elementary Contexts
Modeling of Emerging Themes
Thematic Document Classification
Dictionary-Based Classification
Texts and Discourses as Dynamic Systems
Comparative Analysis
Specificity Analysis
Correspondence Analysis
Multiple Correspondence Analysis
Cluster Analysis
Singular Value Decomposition
Lexical Tools
Text Screening / Disambiguations
Corpus Vocabulary
Stop-Word List
Multi-Word List
Word Segmentation
Other Tools
Variable Manager
Advanced Corpus Search
Classification of New Documents
Key Contexts of Thematic Words
Export Custom Tables
Editor
Import-Export Identifiers list
Glossary
Analysis Unit
Association Indexes
Chi-Square
Cluster Analysis
Coding
Context Unit
Corpus and Subsets
Correspondence Analysis
Data Table
Disambiguation
Dictionary
Elementary Context
Frequency Threshold
Graph Maker
Homograph
IDnumber
Isotopy
Key-Word (Key-Term)
Lemmatization
Lexical Unit
Lexie and Lexicalization
Markov Chain
MDS
Multiwords
N-grams
Naïve Bayes
Normalization
Occurrences and Co-occurrences
Poles of Factors
Primary Document
Profile
Specificity
Stop Word List
Test Value
Thematic Nucleus
TF-IDF
Variables and Categories
Words and Lemmas
Bibliography
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Import a single file ...


In the case of a single document (or a corpus considered as a single text) T-LAB 10 needs no further work: just select the 'Import a single file…' option.

Then perform the following steps (see the image below): (1) select any file; (2) choose the project name; (3) select the language of your text; (4) click on 'Import'.

 

Subsequently a setup form appears (see below) in which the user can make his choices.

N.B.:
- As the pre-processing options determine both the kind and the number of analysis units (i.e. context units and lexical units), different choices (see below the advanced options) determine different analysis results. For this reason, all
T-LAB outputs (i.e. charts and tables) shown in the user’s manual and in the on-line help are indicative only;
- All pre-processing steps are performed when importing any type of corpus.

 

1 - AUTOMATIC LEMMATIZATION OR STEMMING

Here is the complete list of the thirty (30) languages for which the automatic lemmatization or the stemming process is supported by T-LAB 10 .

LEMMATIZATION: Catalan, Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak , Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
STEMMING: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Turkish.

In any case, without automatic lemmatization and / or by using customized dictionaries the user can analyse texts in all languages, provided that words are separated by spaces and / or punctuation.



The result of the lemmatization process can be verified by means of the Vocabulary function and can be modified by means of the Dictionary Building function.

2 - TEXT SEGMENTATION (ELEMENTARY CONTEXTS)

According to the user's choices, the elementary contexts for the computation of co-occurrences can be four: sentences, chunks of comparable length, paragraphs or short texts (e.g. responses to open-ended questions).
The corpus_segments.dat file allows the user to verify the result of corpus segmentation.

3 - MULTI-WORD CHECK

The "Basic" option activates the automatic use of
T-LAB multi-word list.

Whereas the "Advanced" option, enabled with automatic lemmatization only, allows the user:
- to verify and modify the list of multi-words not included in the
T-LAB database;
- to import and use customized lists (Multiwords.txt files).


 

4 - STOP-WORD CHECK

The "Basic" option activates the automatic use of
T-LAB stop-word list.

Differently the "Advanced" option allows the user:
- to verify and modify the list of stop-words within the corpus;
- to import and use customized lists (StopWords.txt files).

 

5 - KEY-TERM SELECTION

Available options allow us to choose the selection method (TF-IDF or Chi-Square) and the maximum number of lexical units to be included in a list used by
T-LAB for analysing texts with automatic settings.

N.B.: When the importation process is over, by using the customized settings, the user can review the key-term selection and build various lists to be applied.